{"id":13954,"date":"2009-07-27T04:33:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=13954"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:49:32","slug":"fetullahs-missionaries-vs-kurdish-lobbyists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/07\/27\/fetullahs-missionaries-vs-kurdish-lobbyists\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetullah\u2019s Missionaries vs. Kurdish Lobbyists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"size12 MicrosoftSansSerif12\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #9e0704;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif;\">Dr.Aland Mizell is with the  MCI, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif;\">aland_mizell1@hotmail.com<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size12 MicrosoftSansSerif12\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #9e0704;\"><strong>A New Kind of Lobbyists: Kurdish  Lobbyists versus Turkish Muslim Missionaries Lobbyists in the USA\u00a0 (Gulen\u2019s  Missionaries)<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Kurdishaspect.com &#8211; By Dr.Aland  Mizell<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There is an old phrase that says ten  people who speak make more noise than a hundred thousand who are silent. For  many years in the United States, Armenian lobbyists and Greek lobbyists were  more effective than Turkish ones.\u00a0 The American and European Union publics have  always taken the opposite position on issues related to Turkey, such as on the  Armenian genocide, Cypriots issues, Kurdish issues and human rights, among  others. However, lately this leaning has changed. Today Fethullah G\u00fclen has  taken advantage of American and Western democracy to use its strengths for his  own good trying to change the Western and the American image of Turkey. In other  words, G\u00fclen is trying to defeat the Western and American culture with their own  weapon of democracy turning it against them. For example, lobbying in democratic  systems is the right to influence legislations, a right that is protected under  the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:\u00a0 Congress shall make no law  abridging the right of the people to petition the government to address their  need. Therefore the protection assumes that people should be involved in the  decision-making process that will affect them. It is a political fact that the  American capitalist system of government is one which relies on lobbying within  the American traditional political system. It is considered a political value  and thus legitimates manipulating the government as well as Congress for  achieving a political, economical, cultural, or social view. This kind of  political system allows for its weakness of being manipulated by lobbyists and  interest groups. The ideas of lobby legitimacy and legality of lobbyists are  rational as long as they serve the interest of the American people. By contrast,  the G\u00fclen lobbyists serve an ideology that wills to rule the world and thus does  not serve the American people\u2019s interest but instead jeopardizes American  national security, interests, and subsequently world peace. Gulen\u2019s followers  offer scholarships targeting minorities, especially African \u2013 American college  students who want to study in Turkey. His supporters use the race card to target  African Americans because of the historicity of slavery, and they claim that  Islam does not welcome slavery and that there is no racism under the tenets of  Islam.\u00a0 Using that rationale to recruit Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and  other minorities in the USA, G\u00fclen also notices that the African- American  community is on the rise in its place in the American society. However, back in  early 90s during his first trip to USA, G\u00fclen claimed that America would be  destroyed by the African \u2013 Americans. Now, however, racial dynamics have  changed, particularly solidified by the election of President  Obama.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Since G\u00fclen is exiled to the USA from  his home country because of its charge that he attempted to overthrow the  secular government of Turkey, Gulen\u2019s community in the USA takes a more active  role in lobbying activities, spurred by his presence. Of course before the  Justice and Development Party (AK Party) with its Muslim government came to  power, G\u00fclen did not get support from the Turkish secular government. Rather,  his movement was under scrutiny by a government operating under Ataturk\u2019s  secularism. But today under the Islamic AK Party the relationship is different  because President Gull and Prime Minister Endogen publically called Gulen\u2019s  followers \u201cOttoman soldiers\u201d who go everywhere.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A rational person will ask what kind  of history does G\u00fclen teach at his schools? The Turkish government gives more  than 3 million in endowment grants to leading American universities trying to  buy academic freedom from the dark passage of the Armenian genocide. According  to most historians, Armenians were massacred in a deliberate extermination of  program by the Ottoman Empire during World War II. So at his schools G\u00fclen  teaches revisionist history by giving grants to many leading universities in the  United States to ensure that they also teach a revisionist history that this  genocide never happened, that fewer Armenians died, and those did because the  Armenians first revolted against the Turks, resulting in a tragic civil war.  Also according to his revisionist history, Turks never denied Kurdish rights; it  is all the Kurds\u2019 fault. Turks never did anything wrong, because the Ottoman  Turks were angelic and sinless, the most peaceful empire. As such, it should be  established, he argues, once again, this time not by using the sword but by  using the pen. The pen would include lobbying activities carried out by an  independent civil society of organizations such as NGOs, taking advantage of  democracy in its freedom of speech and celebration of equality, trapping the  unsuspecting in interfaith dialogues under the face of tolerance although he  himself is not the most tolerant person, and using, in addition to interfaith  dialogues, Turkish cultural centers, Turkish cultural associations, the Rumi  forum, the Niagara Foundation, business associations, the Interfaith Institute,  cooking classes, newspapers, a television station, magazines, and Hollywood. In  addition, he has infiltrated the U.S bureaucracy, the CIA, the FBI, NSA. Other  key tactics are using high profile people as spokespersons, such as Bill  Clinton, holding conferences to promote his ideas, although he never invites the  opposition who will object his position to these conferences. Further, every  year he brings his followers\u00a0 from Turkey and Central Asian countries to study  as undergraduate and graduate students in the\u00a0 USA and directing them to receive  scholarships at the prestigious universities to disseminate their Islamic  mission. G\u00fclen knows that they cannot achieve these goals in Turkey. They can  only be achieved under the Western and American democratic systems. G\u00fclen has  opened more than 90 charter schools in almost every state in the USA. One  wonders why? What kind of history do they teach?\u00a0 What is their purpose? The  list of schools follows:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Arizona<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Schools Operated by Daisy Education  Corporation<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson \u00a0\u00a0  Middle-High School \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 2325 W Sunset Rd., Tucson, AZ 85741<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson \u00a0\u00a0  Elementary School \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2325 W Sunset Rd., Tucson, AZ 85741<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sonoran Science Academy-Broadway  Kindergarten &#8211; Grade 8 \u00a0\u00a0 6880 E Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85710<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sonoran Science Academy-Phoenix \u00a0  Kindergarten &#8211; Grade 10 \u00a0 4837 E McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85008<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Daisy Early Learning Academy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0  \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 2325 W Sunset Rd., Tucson, AZ 85741<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Davis Monthan Air Force Base *Opening  2009*<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Arkansas<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Lisa Academy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Lisa Academy-North<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">California<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Magnolia Science Academy 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0  \u00a0\u00a0 Magnolia Science Academy 2<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Magnolia Science Academy 3<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Magnolia Science Academy 4<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Magnolia Science Academy 5<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Magnolia Science Academy San  Carlos<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Momentum Middle School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Bay Area Technology School (Bay Tech)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pacific Technology School-San Juan<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pacific Technology School-Santa Ana<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Colorado<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Lotus School for Excellence<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Florida<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Orlando Science Middle School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">River City Science Academy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sweetwater Branch Academy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Stars Middle School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Georgia<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Fulton Science Academy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Technology Enriched Accelerated  Charter High School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Illinois<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Science Academy of Chicago<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Chicago Math and Science Academy\u00a0  Secondary School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Indiana<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Operated by Concept Schools, Inc.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Indiana Math and Science Academy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Louisiana<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Abramson Science and Technology<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Maryland<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Chesapeake Science Point<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Massachusetts<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pioneer Charter School of Science<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Missouri<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Brookside-Frontier Math and Science  School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Brookside Charter and Day School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Nevada<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Coral Academy of Science-Las Vegas<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Coral Academy of Science-Reno  Secondary School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Coral Academy of Science- Reno  Elementary School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">New Jersey<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Bergen Arts and Science Charter School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Paterson Charter School for Science  and Technology<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Tuition Schools<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pioneer Academy of Science<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Ohio<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Operated by Concept Schools, Inc.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Cincinnati<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Columbus<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Columbus<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Columbus<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Horizon Science Academy-Dayton<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">HORIZON SCIENCE ACADEMY &#8211; DENISON<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; 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color: #000000;\">School of Science and Technology-San  Antonio<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">School of Science and  Technology-Corpus Christi<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Tuition schools affiliated with  Raindrop Turkish House<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Bluebonnet Learning Center of Houston<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Bluebonnet Learning Center of Dallas<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Bluebonnet Learning Center of El Paso<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Utah<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Beehive Science and Technology Academy  Secondary School<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Wisconsin<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Wisconsin Career Academy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Sun Tzu, a famous Chinese philosopher  said, \u201cThose who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances.  Those who do not use the local guides cannot take advantage of the ground.\u2019\u2019  G\u00fclen knows who his enemy is and knows how to manipulate and take advantage of  the ground. I believe the Kurds could do the same thing as long as they stop  giving petty excuses and blaming each other for political reasons. The Kurds  must be united for their common good; otherwise they will lose this opportunity  as well soon. If they are not active now, when will they be? The Kurds have more  reasons to be active. Why cannot the Kurds be active like Gulen\u2019s missionaries  are?\u00a0 Kurds have gone through so many atrocities, and much injustice, cruelty,  oppression, and denial of the right to live like the rest of humanity. Once in  his State of the Union address to the Mexican people in 2007, President Felipe  Calderon said, \u201cMexico does not stop at its border; wherever there is a Mexican,  there is Mexico.\u201d This should be true for all the Kurds as well. The region of  Kurdistan does not stop at its border; wherever there is a Kurd, there must be a  Kurdish region. Wherever Kurds go, whatever they do, they should represent the  Kurdish culture and interests. Every Kurd should bring a Kurd from the home  country to the West or to America because in the home country they are being  blocked by the regimes, so we need to encourage them to expatriate Kurds so they  can speak for Kurdistan freely. One of the way Kurds will be more successful in  terms of lobbying is for Kurdish students who study in the West or in the USA at  least is to write essays. It should be a requirement that they should chose  topics that relate to Kurdish social, political, economical, and cultural  issues. Also, professors could give them opportunities to present their essays  to classroom. Kurdish students will have an audience, and I believe they can  make a friend and even make friends with the professors, inviting them to their  houses, telling the story of oppression and cruelty, particularly how they  emigrated to the USA or to the West, because most of the Kurd have good  testimonies to tell the West and Americans to win them, to encourage them to be  on their side, unlike many other immigrants, and thus an advantage the Kurds  have over the others. Mr. Qubat, the Kurdish representative in Washington, D.C.,  gives a petty excuse. He wrote in his blog, \u201cMuch has been written of late in  newspapers across Kurdistan about the Kurdish lobby, or lack thereof. Before we  start analyzing whether or not one exists, we should take a step back and ask  ourselves if we know what one is or not! We should also stop comparing ourselves  to the Jewish lobby or the Armenian Lobby, as these lobbies have been active in  the U.S. for well over half a century\u201d I would like to remind Mr. Qubat and  other Kurds that it is true that the Jewish lobby has deep roots in American  politics and has been here for many decades, but Gulen\u2019s missionaries came in  1999 after the Kurds. A large group of the Kurds came to the USA during he first  Gulf War although some came before that. How many Kurdish institutes do they  have in the U.S?\u00a0 How many Kurdish cultural centers are there in the USA? How  many Kurdish conferences have been held in the USA? How many grants have been  given to professors to study the Kurdish history and languages? How many Kurdish  students have been brought from the Kurdish region to study in the U.S.A., so  that they could be one of the lobbyists? How many Kurdish TV channels have  opened in the USA? How Many Kurdish NGOs has been formed in the USA? How many  NGOs have been set up to help the Kurdish people in Kurdistan? How many annual  Kurdish day parades are held?\u00a0 How many times have Kurds invited dignitaries,  professors, and law officers to dinner or to parties to introduce the Kurdish  history and cultures as well as narratives of oppression, cruelty and injustice?  How many professors, legislators, or civic leaders have taken trips to the  Kurdish regions?\u00a0 How many Kurdish professors teach in the top ten American  universities? How many times Kurds have used high level officials to perpetrate  their ideology, such as the former President Bill Clinton, the former Secretary  of the States Madeline Albright? It is true that everything needs money. Surely  the Kurdish regional government has enough oil money to fund those areas that I  mentioned. Gulen also did not get any support from the government, but only from  the people who follow him. Former President Clinton said that pessimism is an  excuse for not trying and a guarantee for a personal failure. It is important  for Kurds to direct their anger and frustration towards problems, not toward  each other and to focus their energies on answers not excuses. A unity of  feeling and thought are essential among the Kurdish people\u2019s strength; any  disintegration of political and cultural moral unity may lead to weakness.  Kurdish people should never make the differences of thought and opinion a means  of conflict. Kurds should not tolerate the separation of the Kurdish people into  camps that destroys their unity. Does tolerance of political and cultural  division mean closing one\u2019s eye to the Kurdish nation\u2019s extinction? Politics is  the art of managing a country\u2019s affairs in ways that please the people, protect  them from oppression, and rules them based on justice for all. Good politicians  are the ones who are characterized by adherence to the superiority of laws and  grant rights to the people based on their merit, not based on kinship or  obligation even giving them delicate job to manage without their experience or  ability. Laws should be effective all the time everywhere and for everyone, and  those enforcing the law should administer in a just, kind, and equal way to all  so that the public will have trust in them and be secure with them. One cannot  speak of good government where these qualities do not exist.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The right to be heard does not  automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Kurds must work hard to  lobby making sure the people are taking these rights seriously. One of the most  important things that destroys the Kurds as a people is that they are simple  minded toward those who would deceive them while pretending to be their friends.  Kurds should not believe every promise and should not be misled by everyone who  gives advice with a smile. For example, G\u00fclen wants to solve the Kurdish problem  within the Islamic context, which means he is using Islam to justify his means,  saying Islam forbids racism and that we are all Muslim regardless of our race,  color, etc. but at the same time, he will argue that God has chosen the Turkish  people to carry the banner and represent true Islam.\u00a0 His followers never dare  to talk about the Kurdish question. Thanks to the European and Kurdish Diaspora  pressing Turkey to recognize that there is a Kurdish nation, Kurds are not  \u201cmountain Turks\u201d but they are Kurds. Also, the Diaspora helped Turkey for the  first time ever recognize that there is a Kurdish problem that needs to be  solved. For a long time G\u00fclen and government officials were silent and denied  that there is such a Kurdish problem.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">There is another trap waiting for  Kurds, which is the Islamic card. G\u00fclen is already using it to recruit many  Kurds to his movement. The Islamic regime\u2019s treatment of the Kurds will not be  any different from previous regimes\u2019 treatment of them. Under the previous  regimes Kurds did not have problems as long as they denied that they were Kurds  and this factor will be the same under the Islamic regime. As long as you do not  say, \u201cI am Kurd,\u201d you are welcomed with no problems. Today in Turkey the Kurdish  Parliamentarians were democratically elected by the Kurdish people and given a  victory, but the Muslim administration is not happy and is using intimidation to  attack and put the Kurds in jail one by one, charging them in court, financially  and spiritually harassing the Kurds trying to lower their morale, so that they  will give up. They are using many kinds of tactics to justify their means.  Purposefully working on a plan to bring in the Kurds, G\u00fclen wants his circles to  discuss the Kurdish issues rather than Europeans or any other scholars. If today  Kurds are somehow known in the international arena is it because Kurdish  lobbyists have carried out many important activities concerning Kurdish issues.  Because many of Kurds who moved to West were already older and had a hard time  integrating into the Western culture, it is important to bring the younger  generation into the political arena. The Kurdish government should fund the  lobbyists, so that they can focus on doing lobbying. Kurds should work together,  not just individuals. The Kurdish problem in Syria should be same problem as  that of the Kurds in Turkey or Iraqi Kurds. I believe nothing is impossible for  the Kurdish people to accomplish; there are always ways that lead to everything;  if Kurds have enough will, they should always have sufficient means, not  excuses.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"size12 MicrosoftSansSerif12\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #9e0704;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"size10 MicrosoftSansSerif10\" style=\"font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif',sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Dr.Aland Mizell is with the MCI, aland_mizell1@hotmail.com<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.Aland Mizell is with the MCI, aland_mizell1@hotmail.com A New Kind of Lobbyists: Kurdish Lobbyists versus Turkish Muslim Missionaries Lobbyists in the USA\u00a0 (Gulen\u2019s Missionaries) Kurdishaspect.com &#8211; By Dr.Aland Mizell There is an old phrase that says ten people who speak make more noise than a hundred thousand who are silent. 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